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2005-06-06 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2005-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Way to increase your popularity, guys.

Posted by someone 2005-06-06 01:50|| 2005-06-06 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 What option do they have? They, and their constitution, are finished (fini).

Yes, Jock goes to jail and Gearhead takes a powder.

Oui?

Posted by Captain America 2005-06-06 06:04|| 2005-06-06 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The outgoing German Chancellor and the outgoing French President are no doubt trying to shore up their future positions in the Brussels Buffoonery.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-06 08:11|| 2005-06-06 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 These guys are Democrats, they may not admit it, but who else would totally ignore a popular vote.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-06 08:19|| 2005-06-06 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Louis the XVI affirmed his commitmment to the Monarchy despite growing discontent of many of his countrymen. When asked her opinion, the Queen Marie Antoinette, the youngest and most beautiful daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, formally said 'let them eat cake'.
Whoooooooosh! CHOMP!!!

Posted by Pheregum Spairong2458 2005-06-06 08:25|| 2005-06-06 08:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Yeah, the Krauts didn't have the stones to actually ask their people what they thought. Typical.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-06 11:07|| 2005-06-06 11:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Dear, foolish, naive Marie Antoinette never did say, "Let them eat cake." That was, if I recall correctly, Madame la Pompadour, mistress of her grandfather-in-law. Marie and her courtiers liked to play at shepherds and shepherdesses... although I can't imagine they enjoyed the simple life when the Revolution thrust it upon them.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-06 12:02|| 2005-06-06 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Mojo, the German Constituion forbids referenda. Granted, the same result could have been achieved with a survey, had the government wanted to know the opinion of the peepul, but let's not blame Schroeder for this one, when there is so much else he is legitimately culpable of.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-06 12:05|| 2005-06-06 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, I'd be more worried at Germany's economy teetering on the verge of depression if I were a German.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-06 12:07|| 2005-06-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Cake was cheaper than bread in Pre-revolutionary France, thanks to a central pricing system.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-06 12:10|| 2005-06-06 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Oooopppppsss. Not cheaper, more available. The pricing set the price of bread to low. No bread, lottsa cake tho.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-06 12:11|| 2005-06-06 12:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Had they wanted, they could have changed that provision in the German Constitution with a 2/3 majority in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
It was a lot easier to hide behind the Basic Law, of course.
Chirac and Schroeder can back a corpse, but we won't back them. It's over. Or, in the words of the often quoted Dr McCoy:

It's dead, Jim

Posted by True German Ally 2005-06-06 13:31|| 2005-06-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#13 That would be why Schroeder is holding his nose.

Posted by Tom 2005-06-06 14:09|| 2005-06-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#14 short-term voting behaviour

That's rich. Does he mean that only a series of votes taken over a long period of time count? Would he be making the same comment if the vote had been "yes"?

Or apply it (no, don't) to US elections: "John Kerry declared today that he is in fact the President, despite the short-term voting behavior of 60,000,000 Americans."

Posted by Matt 2005-06-06 14:11|| 2005-06-06 14:11|| Front Page Top

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